Carl Icahn

Australia, Canada Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

We'll admit it: so far, most conversations concerning the Microsoft-Yahoo deal and antitrust issues have related to the U.S. and Europe. Still, two potential roadblocks were eliminated yesterday when the Australian Competition...

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Casinos’ Losses Prove to Be Law Firms’ Gain

Law firms are benefiting from the gaming industry's losing streaks. Kirkland & Ellis landed work Tuesday as the lead debtor's counsel for Majestic Star Casino, which filed for bankruptcy related to two Indiana casinos and other...

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Hedge fund lawyer runs for Congress, anti-big banks

By Joseph A. Giannone NEW YORK, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Christopher Paige, 38, for the past three years was general counsel for Paige Capital Management, a small New York hedge fund founded by his wife, Michelle, and sister-in-law...

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CityCenter raises stakes on the Vegas Strip

By Suzette Parmley Inquirer Staff Writer LAS VEGAS - The $8.5 billion joint venture by MGM Mirage Inc. and Dubai World features the work of eight top architects and several luxury hotel and condo towers, a major retail complex,...

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Divorcee Flaherty evidently not 'blessed' with patience

By SHANNON DONNELLY Daily News Society Editor Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Brandie Herbst and H. Loy Anderson III mixed cocktails at Reef Road Rum Bar to kick off the March of Dimes 'Glitz' dinner dance. As divorces go, Tina and...

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Deals of the Day: Could Cadbury Turn to a Pac-Man Defense? (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

By Stephen Grocer Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see...

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DetN Bailout Report: White House Forced Rapid Bankruptcy, UAW Refused Hourly Pension Freeze

On October 13th of last year, when TTAC’s Bailout Watch clocked in at a mere 115 entries, GM’s then-CEO Rick Wagoner and board members Erskine Bowles and John Bryan approached the Treasury for a “temporary” bailout. Not that we...

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The inside story of the GM, Chrysler bailouts

Detroit's Big Three automakers came closer than America realized to becoming the Big Two. General Motors Corp. ended merger talks with Chrysler LLC in November 2008 to focus on getting emergency federal aid, but Chrysler...

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Obama task force worked fast, hard on auto rescue

Washington -- The Obama administration's Team Auto -- a group of a dozen mostly young Wall Street veterans -- worked grueling hours even by Wall Street standards to do the near impossible: remake and save General Motors Corp....

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Sullivan & Cromwell Cleared for Entry in CIT Bankruptcy

A federal judge has approved CIT Group's motion to hire Sullivan & Cromwell as special counsel for the duration of its bankruptcy case. The brief pegs S&C as essential to CIT's existence, claiming the firm's "advice is critical...

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